ENGLAND have been forced to go back to the drawing board after just one match following the tour-ending rib injury to Kevin Pietersen.

All the hard work put in by Michael Vaughan has been blown away with Pietersen's injury.

Vaughan (left) and coach Duncan Fletcher came up with a plan to either set big totals or chase them down and, as Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting correctly stated, most of the plans centred around Pietersen.

The England captain admitted the game against Australia, in which Pietersen put on a run-a-ball 38 with Freddie Flintoff, almost worked perfectly until the painful blow.

"That was the first time we have had our two strongest hitters in the team in the position we wanted them in," said Vaughan. "Now we will have to formulate a different strategy."